This donation fulfills the wish of Isabel Dulcet Grau (1957 – 2024), an administrator linked to the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council, that the documentary collection be preserved in the Ripollet archive and made accessible to the public. The action is part of a growing institutional sensitivity towards memory preservation, recently highlighted by the cession of the legacy of Jaume Mimó i Llobet to the Cerdanyola archive.
Among the most notable materials are six copies of the local school magazine Sempre avant!, published in Ripollet during the Second Republic. The collection also includes 520 hand programs for cinema films, many of which were screened in Ripollet and Cerdanyola cinemas.
This donation reinforces the task of preserving the historical and cultural memory of the municipality and highlights the importance of the Municipal Archive as a space for conservation.
These documents are complemented by biographical and critical dossiers, including technical sheets for films corresponding to Cine Club 73 and Cine Club 74. The donation also includes eleven photographs of urban spaces and landscapes of the municipality, as well as various school or religious notebooks and books belonging to Antoni Espuny Capella and Maria Dulcet Comadran.
This reflection on private documentary funds will be complemented by the talk “Private archives: challenges for the preservation and dissemination of collective memory,” given by Marta Marín-Dòmine, former director of the Born, on Wednesday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m., at the Assembly Hall of the Ripollet Cultural Center.
